When we were learning how to play chess, most of us dreamed about becoming next Capablanca, Fischer or Kasparov one day. Alas, the sad reality is that 99.999 percent of us will never become one of the chess gods.
Should...

After I learned how to play chess (age 12), I jumped into the game head first by playing in a chess tournament (even though I didn’t know the difference between checkmate and stalemate). Let’s just say...

This is the story of Kārlis Ozols that should be called, "When Chess Players Go Bad." The story is one of amazement, puzzlement and disgust.
Kārlis Ozols had been a chess player in his native Latvia. ...

Blogs

Found an interesting article from the international weekly journal of science.Thought it would be nice to share it.
For all you budding Kasparovs out there, a team of cognitive scientists has worked out how...

I've started to translate the article some time ago, but today seems the most appropriate time to post it. This was published exactly half a century ago, in 1966, when Korchnoi was still a well-respected member...

by HJS
Karl Crowe tells the story: A missionary Bible translator came across a portion of Scripture that had already been translated into the language she was working on. She noticed that the word idinide had been...

I had such a fun time looking at Botvinnik vs Capablanca yesterday, that I decided to make a series about famous games. Today's famous game is Paul Morphy vs Duke Karl/Count Isouard.
This game has a very interesting...

News

Magnus Carlsen was "calm and confident" going into the tiebreak session on Wednesday, in which he retained his world title. The day after his victory in New York, Carlsen sat down with a small number of...

Albeit briefly, for the first time in the 2016 world chess championship Magnus Carlsen was on the defending side against Sergey Karjakin today. This was the result of one bad move, made in confusion...

"We are all Berliners," former U.S. president John F. Kennedy tried to express once. Today that included both would-be world chess champions.
After choosing not to investigate the Berlin's intricacies Saturday...

At the 42nd Chess Olympiad, 38 teams have started with two victories in the open section. In the second round, the world's top four made their debut in Baku: Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Fabiano Caruana and Vladimir...